Moonset, sunset (Moon over Pretty Bayou)

[Chris Calohan]

This is like sitting with the Science Guy. I learn something new everyday on this forum.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... Chris' nice image shows moonrise and sunrise in the east. The moon came up before the sun...

... It might be helpful to download a free planetarium program...

Well, I did.

What it shows is that every time the moon "came up before the sun" it was in the waning crescent phase.

Chris' nice image shows a waning/waxing gibbous moon, possible only when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth, thus rising when the sun is setting and vice versa.

Therefore, it is a sunrise, moonset after all.

[David Eckels]

Well, I did...Therefore, it is a sunrise, moonset after all.

Whew! Glad we got that figgered out! Too funny.

[sdwilsonsct]

Not so fast, Dave! 

It grieves me when my friends are wrong. Hopefully they feel the same way about me.

Full moon: moon and sun are on opposite sides of the earth. Moon fully illuminated. Rises at sunset. Sets at sunrise. (All of these statements vary with latitude and month.)

After full moon: rises roughly an hour later each night. First late in the evening, and after a few days, after midnight, and then well before sunrise. Which is what Chris photographed.

Slobodan wrote: "Chris' nice image shows a waning/waxing gibbous moon, possible only when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth, thus rising when the sun is setting and vice versa."

Right, it is waning (getting smaller each day after full moon), and gibbous, and more opposite than not, and  --- rising before the sun.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Chris, buddy, help!

I am not sure why is it so difficult to look into the exif and tell us date and time, but if so, can you at least remember month and year it was taken?

It would save me enormous amount of time, believe me. I mean, in the same time it takes me to persuade Scott, I could have sold dozen ice makers to Eskimos, for god's sake!

P.S. Note to self: do not try to sell anything to Scott.

[David Eckels]

ROFLMAO

[Chris Calohan]

1/16/2011, 4:59:31 PM f/5 1/100 ISO 500...oh dare I say, it was a sunset after all...

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... It grieves me when my friends are wrong. Hopefully they feel the same way about me...

Absolutely

[sdwilsonsct]

4:59:31 PM.

Well at least we can all get some sleep tonight. 

Here's another lunar puzzler for you, Slobodan. Taken at local noon in December. Is it rising, or setting?

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... Here's another lunar puzzler for you, Slobodan. Taken at local noon in December. Is it rising, or setting?

Rising.

December 27th, 2012, northern Sweden?

[sdwilsonsct]

Rising.

December 27th, 2012, northern Sweden?

I would have said close to nadir. Note the position of the sun. This is at 68°N.

Bang on re time and place, although actually Dec 31 2009.

So, Chris: you were right: moonrise, sunset. My mistake was thinking we were looking west.

[Chris Calohan]

I would have said close to nadir. Note the position of the sun. This is at 68°N.

Bang on re time and place, although actually Dec 31 2009.

So, Chris: you were right: moonrise, sunset. My mistake was thinking we were looking west.

Well, as my mama was prone to say to me whenever I had a particular euphony, "ever so often a blind pig finds the acorn." You don't know how many folders I had to dig through to find that file...

[davidh202]

Pretty Chris, but over sharpened- evidence in tree halos, and horizon tree line. sorry but I really dislike halos. They are passable in a small rendition of a file, but really  evident in enlargements

[Chris Calohan]

You're seeing jpeg compression as the original file has no haloes and printed nicely at 11 x 14 and again at 16 x 20.